misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4837 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German
| Message 1 of 5 21 August 2011 at 6:17pm | IP Logged |
I just registered on this board. I've been studying languages on and off for about 19 years.
I'm in my twenties. French is my mother tongue, but I'm also fluent in English. I'm currently studying German on a daily basis.
I was really interested in Italian and Spanish at some point, but right now I'm trying to focus on German.
I took Chinese in college when I was in first year, and I wish I hadn't! The teacher was awful, and she managed to put me off learning Asian languages.
English is definitely my favorite language. It's the main language I use when I want to have fun. I ditched French TV and French music a long time ago.
I'm using the AJATT method to learn English. I already raked in close to 5,000 hours of listening, and that doesn't include music.
Edited by misslanguages on 21 August 2011 at 6:19pm
1 person has voted this message useful
|
Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6430 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 2 of 5 21 August 2011 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
Welcome to the board.
Congratulations on your English; you've done an excellent job with it. Good luck with your German.
1 person has voted this message useful
|
misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4837 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German
| Message 3 of 5 21 August 2011 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
Thanks. I still need to learn a lot of vocabulary, though. My English is pretty good, but my vocabulary isn't very extensive.
1 person has voted this message useful
|
Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6430 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 4 of 5 21 August 2011 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
Read a lot, and be happy that you're a native speaker of French. A lot of high-register vocabulary is cognate.
1 person has voted this message useful
|
misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4837 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German
| Message 5 of 5 21 August 2011 at 10:35pm | IP Logged |
You're right about higher register vocabulary, but I'm interested in learning words that are more commonplace.
Reading doesn't really help me learn vocabulary, since my brain is mainly auditory. Oh well, I'll see what I can do!
1 person has voted this message useful
|